LENIN MISCELLANY
24931

LETTER TO G. E. ZINOVIEV.

To Comrade Zinoviev
Copy: to Radek
    " Rákoši
    " Secretary of Pravda

24. IX. 1921

In *Pravda* they have begun publishing summaries of collections from foreign workers to aid the starving in Russia.

We do not need such summaries. Because this turns out to be a narrative. And for "narratives" we have no paper, no time to read them. And what is the point of this?

What we need are short little tables twice a month according to the following model:

Germany — 10 million marks = approximately ( ) gold rubles
Austria — 10 " crowns — approximately ( ) gold rubles
And so forth — approximately ( ) gold rubles

This will be 20-30 lines twice a month.

Not much.

That is how and only how we need it. The total in gold rubles. I earnestly beg you to carry this through and answer me.

Yours truly, V. Ulyanov (Lenin).

2243

EXCHANGE OF NOTES WITH I. I. RADCHENKO

[7 October 1921]

LENIN'S QUESTION.

How about the purchase of grain at 1 ruble 40 kopecks?

I. I. RADCHENKO'S ANSWER.

It must be purchased, which is being done.

Prices — 1 ruble 35-1 ruble 45 kopecks. The NKVT knows of this; Comrade Frumkin has received them from us. According to our information, London is conducting grain purchases. Today it is important that ( ) should decide to release 20 million rubles in gold.

LENIN'S QUESTION.

Has it been entered on the agenda?

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¹ The exchange of notes took place at a session of the Council of Labor and Defense during discussion of the question of purchasing grain abroad.